This issue introduces several newauthors and contributors and followsour theme of bringing you some inter-esting reading content about librarytechnology. The nature of a Newsletterbegs timeliness, accuracy, interest andnews and we hope that you find that theinformation contained herein meetsthose expectations.

We introduce you to Tom Wilson,who wrote an opinion piece that testsour sense of reality when we examinehow much personal computers andworkstations have really dropped inprice over the last decade and whetherour assumptions are accurate or if ourexpectations are just that much greater.Enjoy reading “Pricing Trends forPersonal Computers: Moore’s Law,Wilson’s Corollary, and Reality.”David Bretthauer offers an introductionto Open Source Software and exploresits application to libraries.

This begins the active conferenceseason around the world. We have con-ference reports from the Society forInformation Technology and TeacherEducation (SITE) conference inOrlando, Association of College &Research Libraries 10th NationalConference in Denver; the E-Books2001 meeting in London; the 4thInternational Conference on ElectronicTheses and Dissertations (ETD2001) inPasadena; Technology in Educationconference in Southern California.

We want to encourage coverage andsubmissions from Europe, South andCentral America, Canada and the AsiaPacific. Please let us know where youare going, what you are doing that isrelevant to library technology and

automation. Our scope of coverage isliberal and we invite your participation.Please consult the Diary and let usknow if you choose to write such areport or can recommend a colleagueyou know who will be attending a con-ference.

We recognize that you cannot covereverything, but we want to share whatis happening out there and promotecultural understanding and professionaldevelopment. Sometimes, as can beseen from the reports in this issue, shar-ing the responsibilities with some col-leagues offers readers varied view-points and observations.

Of our contributing editors, HowardFalk explores lots of new issues andproducts in his column, “E-BookCurrents: A Pulse,” and GerryMcKiernan dissects the e-Conf:Stanford Linear Accelerator CenterProceedings Archive in his e-Profilecolumn.

Another first-time contributor isMark Bay, who responded to our noticeon License-L for copyright related con-tent, and explores “Libraries and theNeed to Educate Users aboutCopyright and Fair Use.” Emma Pearseis our eyes and ears about what is hap-pening in the profession and informa-tion industry.

This issue also is the launch for anew column that will take us aroundthe globe, “Case Studies in LibraryTechnology and Automation,” and thefirst stop is the University of Valenciain Spain with a write-up by MariaCarmen Cárcel Más.

We hope that you will share theresponsibilities of updating each other

CONTENTS

Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

FEATURESPricing Trends for Personal

Computers: Moore’s Law,Wilson’s Corollary, andReality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

E-Book Currents: A Pulse . . . . . . . . 5Open Source Software in

Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Libraries and the Need to Educate

Users about Copyright andFair Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Around the Globe: Case Studiesin Library Automation . . . . . . . 13

REVIEWSE-profile

eConf: The SLAC ElectronicConference Proceedings Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

CONFERENCE REPORTSInfusing Education with

Technology: Society forInformation Technology andTeacher Education (SITE)Annual Conference. . . . . . . . . . 24

Association of College andResearch Libraries 10thNational Conference. . . . . . . . . 29

E-Books 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33ETD 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34TechEd 2001: Technology in

Education InternationalConference and Exposition. . . . 36

NEW & NOTEWORTHY. . . . . . 38

CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

CALL FOR PAPERS. . . . . . . . . 43

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SLAC: The Stanford LinearAccelerator Center

The Stanford Linear AcceleratorCenter (SLAC) is a national researchlaboratory operated by StanfordUniversity under contract with the US Department of Energy (DOE).Personnel affiliated with SLAC areinvolved with experimental and theo-retical research in elementary particlephysics using electron beams. Theyalso pursue research in atomic andsolid state physics, chemistry, biology,and medicine, using synchrotron radia-tion. The two-mile linear accelerator atSLAC – the longest in the world – islocated on a 426-acre campus in MenloPark, California, three miles west of themain Stanford University facilities.Astrophysical research at SLAC isfocused on space-based measurementof phenomena that originate in regionsof very-high field relativistic gravityand on the physics of matter underultra-extreme temperature, pressure,and density. SLAC has a combinedstaff of approximately 1,300 (FTE). Inaddition, every year 800 scientists fromuniversities and laboratories fromaround the world participate in theSLAC high-energy physics programand an equal number are involved in itssynchrotron radiation program. SLACis also actively involved in the devel-opment of accelerators, detectors, andinstrumentation to support high-energyand synchrotron radiation programsworldwide (About SLAC, 1998).

The SLAC Librar y

The mission of the Stanford LinearAccelerator Center Library (SLACLibrary) is to provide essential infor-mation services to support SLACresearch programs in high-energy andparticle physics, particle accelerator

theory, design and construction, andsynchrotron radiation-based accelera-tor theory, design and instrumentation.The SLAC Library also provides avariety of onsite and offsite resourcesthat support the information needs ofSLAC staff in the fields of science edu-cation, applied mathematics, engineer-ing, computer science, condensed mat-ter physics, structural molecular biolo-gy, and areas of environmental healthand safety, law, business information,and other subjects that complement thelaboratory’s primary scientific andtechnical mission (Welcome to theSLAC Library, 2001). The SLACLibrary is a unit of the TechnicalInformation Services (TIS) department.Among the other units and functionscoordinated by this department are theArchives and History Office, manage-ment of the SPIRES-HEPdatabase, andthe printing and distribution of theSLAC technical publications. Thedepartment itself is a group within theResearch Division of SLAC. (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/rd/rd.html).

Many of the databases and docu-ments offered by the SLAC Library are maintained within SPIRES, theStanford University-developed data-base management system used by uni-versities, colleges and research institu-tions throughout the world for a varietyof academic, administrative and scien-tific applications. A current Unix-basedimplementation of SPIRES includes aWeb-based interface and providesfaster distributed computing and signif-icant improvements in interoperability,flexibility and speed.

Among the library databases anddocuments accessible from the SLAC-SPIRES information retrieval systemare an online catalog of books held bythe library, a list of serials holdings, alist of electronic journals, the SPIRES-HEP (high-energy physics) database,

e-prints from the Los Alamos NationalLaboratory server (arXiv.org) and theSLAC collection, and a database ofconferences, meetings and workshops,related to particle physics and the gen-eral interests of the high-energyresearch community (SLAC Librarymission statement, 2000).

SLAC Library Book Catalog andSerial Holdings Lists

Books held at the SLAC Librarymay be searched by author, title, keywords, or browsed by assigned subjectheading in a SPIRES-based online cat-alog (http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/find/books). The book collection ishoused on open shelves and classifiedusing a modified version of the Libraryof Congress classification scheme(SLAC Library mission statement,2000). The journals and other serialpublications held by the SLAC Libraryare made available as a Serial HoldingsList (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/serialhold.html). A separate listof online serial publications is alsomaintained (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/ejournals.html).

SPIRES-HEP

In addition to managing and provid-ing bibliographic access to traditionallibrary materials, the SLAC Librarymaintains the SPIRES-HEPcatalog, anonline database of preprints, journalarticles, conference papers, technicalreports, theses and dissertations, andother materials of potential value to the worldwide high-energy physicscommunity. The catalog provides timely, accurate and comprehensivebibliographic coverage of the world’shigh-energy physics preprints and iscurrently a joint collaboration betweenthe SLAC Library and the libraries of

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several other major high-energyresearch libraries. Among the librariescooperating with the SLAC Library arethose associated with the EuropeanOrganization for Nuclear Research(CERN), the Fermi NationalAccelerator National Laboratory(Fermilab), Deutsches ElektronenSynchrotron (DESY); the High EnergyAccelerator Research Organization,Tsukuba, Japan (KEK); and theYukawa Institute of Kyoto University(KYOTO), among others (AboutSPIRES-HEP, 1999).

As of April 2001, the SPIRES-HEP(http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/) database provides access to morethan 415,000 high-energy related pub-lications received by the SLAC and theDESY libraries. The SPIRES-HEPcat-alog may be searched in a commandmode using a variety of SPIRES searchoptions (SPIRES Help, undated) (seeFigure 1) or searched by individualrecord fields (e.g. author, title, reportnumber, keywords, e-print sub-collec-tion, selected journal titles, date, etc.)or field combinations (see Figure 2). Inaddition, the catalog can be browsedfrom several key fields (e.g. author,title-word, experiment, journal orcoden, report number, etc.).

e-Prints

The SLAC Library also providesaccess to e-prints in relevant categoriesthat are made available daily on thearXiv.org server. Astrophysics, generalrelativity, high-energy theory, generalphysics, and quantum physics areamong the linked arXiv.org e-print sub-collections (McKiernan, 2000). Thelibrary’s gateway also allows users tobrowse the brief records of relevant e-prints that have been added to a sep-arate SLAC-SPIRES e-print database.Users may browse this SLAC-SPIRESdatabase for records added within acurrent two-week period or search theentire database by e-print number,abstract text, author or title. In mostcases, the full-text of the e-print ismade available as a link to arXiv.org orother e-print servers. Records retrievedfrom a SPIRES command or fieldsearch may be displayed in an array ofstyles (e.g. HTML, BibTeX, LaTeX,etc.), or formats (e.g. bibliographiccitation, citation summary, citation

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Figure 1.First Page of SPIRES-HEPSearch Screen

Figure 2.Second Page of SPIRES-HEPSearch Screen

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indexed, etc.), and may be sorted bydate, first author, title or first author/title.

SPIRES Conferences

For researchers in physics and otherfields, conference proceedings andpapers are as significant as print andelectronic journals and articles.Recognizing the importance of the con-ference literature to its staff and associ-ates, SLAC, in association with its sis-ter research institutions, maintains aconference database that providesinformation about relevant past andforthcoming conferences, meetings andworkshops, in particle physics andother areas of potential interest to thehigh-energy research community(http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/pdg/conferences.html). A significantnumber of records in this database –but not all – include a link to the full-text of select conference papers fromthe SPIRS-HEPdatabase. The databasecovers conferences from the early1970s, although selected meetings andconferences from the 1960s are alsoincluded. If available, a link is provid-ed from a SPIRES Conferences recordto the conference Web page. As ofApril 2001, there were records for10,000 conferences in the SPIRESConferences database[1]. The confer-ences database can be searched by key-word title, conference acronym or con-ference location, and limited by date.Users may also search the databaseusing SPIRES commands (SPIREScommand searching, 2000). Searchresults for either search type may besorted in chronological or reversechronological order. A “Quick Searches”option allows users access to display ofconferences added to the databasewithin the current week or the currentmonth, as well as those scheduled to beheld in 2001 and 2002. Users may nom-inate new conferences for inclusion inthe database by using a standard Webform (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/conferences/add_conference.html).

eConf: SLAC Electronic ConferenceProceedings Ar chive

To promote the publication andexpedite the availability of conference

Figure 3.eConfMain Page

Figure 4.SPIRES ConferenceDatabase Entries for eConfProceedings

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proceedings, an experimental archivetitled eConf (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/) has been established underthe auspices of the SLAC TechnicalInformation Services department(eConf: Committee, 2000) (see Figure3). At this time, the eConf archive islimited to proceedings in high-energyphysics and related fields. The archivepresently contains the conferencepapers of two proceedings: the 19thInternational Symposium on Leptonand Photon Interactions at HighEnergies (LP99) and 20th InternationalLinac Conference (Linac 2000) (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/conf/www?kw=econf) (see Figure 4).

Searching

Within the eConf Web page, usersmay search the eConf proceedings col-lection (“Search all eConf Content”),search the SPIRES Conferences data-base for an eConf proceedings (“SearchSPIRES-CONF for Conferences”), orsearch the SPIRES-HEPdatabase forindividual papers in eConf. The eConfcontent search utilizes the Inktomi®search software to search for the occur-rence of a term, acronym or phrase inproceedings citations and abstracts andall eConf Web pages; the direct full-text searching of conference proceed-ings is not presently available in thecurrent eConf content search configu-ration (see Figure 5). The SPIRES-CONF search option allows users tosearch the eConf collection by confer-ence title, conference acronym (e.g.“LP 99”), conference title keyword orphrase (e.g. “Lepton and PhotonInteractions”), or location (e.g.“Stanford”), or combination of titleword, phrase or acronym and location(see Figure 6). However, unlike thesearch options available in the mainSPIRES-Conferences search page, theeConf search interface does not permitusers to specify a date range, displaystyle, format, nor pre-sort the results inchronological or reverse chronologicalorder.

The “Search SPIRES-HEP” optionwithin the eConf search page allowsusers to search for individual papers byauthor or title keyword, or limit thesearch by the arXiv.org sub-collection,in which a given eConf paper has beenarchived (e.g. “astro-ph”, “hep-ex”,

Figure 5.Sample “Search All eConf Content” Search Results

Figure 6.eConf SPIRES-CONFSearch Results

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“physics”, etc.) In addition, users maysearch all eConf conference proceed-ings concurrently or limit the search toa specific proceedings. However,unlike the features in the mainSPIRES-HEPdatabase, users cannotspecify the citation, title, keyword,journal, or other specific fields, norlimit by date or specify the displaystyle and format. While the e-Confsearch interface does not offer exten-sive search, display or sort options, itdoes permit a user to display therecords for all the conferences in theeConf collection and to link to the com-plete contents of a selected proceedings(see Figure 7).

Record Format

Records retrieved from a search ofthe entire eConf content are listed inorder by relevance percentage, withthose receiving the highest relevancerating listed before those with lower rat-ings. Entries are brief and contain theWeb page title or the Web address as themain entry, followed by the first 30-oddcharacters of the Web page or documenttext. The Web address and file size forthe source item are listed beneath thisstring of characters (see Figure 5).Results from a SPIRES-CONF searchwithin eConf provides a detailed recordthat includes the conference name, date,location, contact information, confer-ence and proceedings Web address, anda SPIRES conference number. Therecord also includes a link to a listing ofpapers and their associated records cat-aloged and indexed in the SPIRES-HEPdatabase (see Figure 6).

Records retrieved from an eConfpage SPIRES-HEPsearch will includea standardized citation; a hotlink to apaper’s references; relevant notes,including conference publication infor-mation and an arXiv.org e-print identi-fier for the paper; links to bibliograph-ic citation for the paper in LaTeX(USA), LaTeX (EU), and BibTeX for-mats; a hotlink to the keywordsassigned to the paper; and a hotlink tothe papers that are recorded as citingthe paper. This record also includes a link to an abstract for the paper, a link to a PostScript version of the full text of the paper, links to severalmirror sites from which a user mayobtain the paper in other document for-mats (e.g. PDF), the Web address for

the proceedings in which the paper waspublished, and the conference Webaddress. In addition, selected SPIRES-HEPrecords include a link to the cata-log record for the paper on the CERNDocument Server, the SLAC DocumentServer, and other servers from whichthe full-text of a paper has beenarchived. For papers that discuss a par-ticular experiment in particle physics, alink is also provided to the relevantrecord in the SLAC-SPIRES Experi-ments database of current experimentsin particle physics (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/experiments/online_ exp.html).

Viewing or Printing

eConf proceedings can be viewed orprinted in one of two formats: full-textproceedings or e-print proceedings.The option to print in the full-text for-mat provides a link to the complete textof the proceedings as well as links tothe PostScript and PDF versions ofindividual papers; the option to printusing the e-print option requires thatthe user identify each conference paperfrom the conference proceedings Webpage and retrieve each individuallyfrom the arXiv.org server, if available.

There are two methods by whichusers can print the full-text proceed-ings. In either case, the copy is

consecutively paginated. To retrievethe entire contents of a proceedings inone operation, users select the “Com-plete Proceedings” link from the pro-ceedings Web page (e.g. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C990809/proceedings.html) (see Figure 7).Selection of the link will present theuser with the option of downloadingthe proceedings text in the compressedPostScript format (.tar). To view orprint the proceedings, the file must beuncompressed using an appropriateutility and viewer (e.g. Ghostview).Users also have the option of printingthe proceedings by section: the frontmatter (title page, table of contents,program, attendees, etc.), the body ofthe proceedings, and the back matter(appendices, author and subject index-es). Using this approach, users mustretrieve and print each paper as well asthe front matter and back matter sepa-rately. For each paper listed on the con-ference page, a hotlink to the SPIRES-HEP record is provided, allowing theuser to view the bibliographic data forthe paper in one of three bibliographicformats (i.e. LaTeX (USA), LaTeX(EU), or BibTeX). A direct link to cata-loging data in the LaTeX (USA) formatis also provided (“Citation”) (see bot-tom of Figure 7).

To print the entire proceedings usingthe e-print option, the front matter (e.g.

Figure 7.Web Page for a Full-Text Proceedings in eConf

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title page, table of contents, committeemembers, attendees, acknowledge-ments, etc.) and the back matter (e.g.appendices, indexes) are printed fromthe conference proceeding site as withthe full-text option. To print all thepapers from a given conference, usersare required to systematically selecteither the associated arXiv.org link foreach paper (“LANL”) in the Linac 2000proceedings (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C000821/proceedings.html)or select the SPIRES-HEPentry(“SPIRES Entry”) for each listed paperin the Lepton-Photon 99 proceedings(http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C990809/proceedings.html). The useris then required to retrieve thearXiv.org record for each from themain arXiv.org site (“aps”) or one ofthe international mirrors, if available(see Figure 7). From within thearXiv.org record, the user may thenprint a paper in one of the available textformats (e.g. PostScript, PDF, DVI).Conference papers must be printedindividually and collated to create theproceedings volume.

Submissions

Editors who wish to publish relevantproceedings in the eConf collectionmay submit content as full-text pro-ceedings or as e-print proceedings. Tosubmit full-text proceedings, editorsare requested to provide PostScript orPDF files containing the various chap-ters of the proceedings, a set of filesfrom which the entire book may beassembled, and an HTMLfile that pro-vides the title page and table of con-tents page for the proceedings.Templates with instructions are avail-able to facilitate the submission of thefull-text (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/editors/fulltext-template/instruc-tions.html: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/editors/fulltext-template/instructions.html) (see Figures 8 and9). Presently, only templates usingLaTeX, the document preparation sys-tem for scientific and technical publica-tions, are available. For submission ofe-print proceedings, individual confer-ence papers are submitted as e-prints tothe arXiv.org e-print service. As withthe full-text proceedings, the confer-ence editor is required to submit anHTML file that provides the title pageand table of contents page for the proceedings. Templates are available

Figure 8.First Page Instructions for Preparation of Full-Text Proceedings

Figure 9.First Page of Template for Full-Text eConf Proceedings Page

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for the submission of papers and for thepreparation of the title page and tableof contents (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/editors/eprint-template/instructions.html). After a proceedingshas been assembled, it is submittedusing a Web submission form (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/editors/submit.html).

eConf Proceedings Citation andMetadata

Instructions for citing eConf pro-ceedings and eConf papers is available(eConf: How to cite, 2000), as is cata-loging metadata for one of the two con-ferences (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/librarians.html).

Implications

In recent years, an increasing num-ber of conference proceedings havebecome available free-of-charge (e.g.USENIX Proceedings (http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/pro-ceedings/) or made available by sub-scription or pay-per-view in digitallibraries (e.g. ACM Digital Library(http://www.acm.org/dl/) or IEEEXplore™ (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/). While a significantnumber of physics conferences havebeen published in scholarly journals(Allen, 2000), many are not widelyavailable due to limited publication anddistribution. In addition, the increasingcost of proceedings may discouragelibraries from acquiring them.

The eConf service provides a mecha-nism by which conference organizersand proceedings editors can publish pro-ceedings at low cost and with limiteddelay. Links to existing databases anddirectories within the SLAC-SPIRESinformation system and arXiv.org andother e-print servers can facilitate theidentification and availability of high-energy conference proceedings andpapers (see Figures 10 and 11). By pro-viding appropriate templates, the overallelectronic publication process is expe-dited. The eConf archive is a service thatenables conference organizers to publishand distribute conference proceedingsmore efficiently than by conventionalmeans and offers access to time-sensi-tive scholarship at no direct cost to thereader. Although originally developedfor the field of high-energy physics,eConf can also serve as a model for

conference publication and distributionin non-scientific and other scientific dis-ciplines.

NOTE

1. E-mail correspondence with HeathO’Connell, April 1, 2001.

REFERENCES

“About SLAC” (1998), available at: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/welcome/aboutslac.html [April 3, 2001].

“About SPIRES-HEP” (1999), available at:http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/about_spireshep.html[April 3, 2001].

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Figure 10.Schematic of Full-Text Edition Features and Relationships to SPIRES andarXiv.org Electronic Databases

Figure 11.Schematic of E-print Edition Features and Relationships to SPIRES and arXiv-org Electronic Databases

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Allen, R.S. (2000), “The magnitude of con-ference proceedings published in physicsjournals”, Special Libraries, Vol. 86 No. 2,pp. 136-44.

“eConf: Committee” (2000), available at:http: / /www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/ committee.html[April 3, 2001].

“eConf: How to cite” (2000), available at:http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/cite.html[April 3, 2001].

McKiernan, G. (2000), “arXiv.org: the LosAlamos National Laboratory e-print server”, International Journal on GreyLiterature, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 127-38.

“SLAC Library mission statement” (2000),available at: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/mission.html[April 3, 2001].

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“SPIRES help” (undated), available at:http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/help.shtml[3 April 2001].

“Welcome to the SLAC Library”, (2001),available at: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/ [April 3, 2001].

FURTHER READING

The following Web-accessible presenta-tions provide an overview about eConf andits intended benefits:

• eConf by Pat Kreitz, Director ofTechnical Information Services andChief Librarian at SLAC, November2000. [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/pr/pkeconfkymgrs.html].

• eConf: An Archive for ConferenceProceedings in High-Energy Physics –www.slac.stanford.edu/econfby M.E.Peskin, theoretical high-energy physicistat SLAC and member of the SLACeConf Committee, October 2000.[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/committee.html].

• eConf: Electronic Conference Pro-ceedings – www.slac.stanford.edu/econf by Heath O’Connell. February2000 [i.e. 2001] [http://www.slac. stanford.edu/~hoc/eConf.ppt].

• LINAC2000 and eConfby HeathO’Connell, March 2001. [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~hoc/Jacow/jacow.ppt].

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author wishes to thank Pat Kreitz,Director of Technical Information Servicesdepartment and Chief Librarian at SLAC,and Dr Heath O’Connell, SPIRES DatabaseManager, for their assistance in preparingthis review. He is particularly grateful to Pat

Kreitz for permission to use the eConfscreen images used in this review and toHeath O’Connell for his prompt response tohis various technical queries. He also wish-es to thank Professor Michael E. Peskin,theoretical high-energy physicist at SLAC,for his permission to reproduce schematicsof the eConf system.

DISCLAIMER

The screen images and associated text arepublished by the Stanford Linear AcceleratorCenter, a national research laboratory oper-ated by Stanford University for the USDepartment of Energy. All rights arereserved. This text may be used and sharedin accordance with the fair-use provisionsof US copyright law, and it may be archivedand redistributed in electronic form, provid-ed that this entire notice, including copy-right information, is carried and providedthat the http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/is notified and no fee is charged for access.Archiving, redistribution or republication ofthis text on other terms, in any medium,requires the consent of the Stanford LinearAccelerator Center.

Gerry McKiernan (gerrymck@iastate.edu) is Science and TechnologyLibrarian and Bibliographer, IowaState University Library, Ames, Iowa.

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